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Forbes' Five Worst Tech Jobs
santan writes: "We've all read countless stories describing the revolutionary and high tech jobs available at Internet startups nowadays but here's an article at Forbes listing the worst tech jobs out there. Some of them include packing dog excrements, chatroom monitoring and searching for the most disturbing porn on the net. So go to work next week with a smile."
Since Microsoft Exchange Server.
Because by the time they call you (1) they already tried to self diagnose and fix some problem and ended up screwing it up more, (2) are by now totally frantic, (3) don't have time to explain the problem to you, and (4) want it fixed now. On Sunday at 22:30, Christmas Sunday, while you're naked in bed with your SO. and (5) customers with direct programmer access will ask "when will you fix it?" I dunno. That's an issue for management to sort out. I'm working on other stuff and the customer suddenly thinks he's my Boss and can immediately reassign my duties? Fuck that.
IMO, customers should never have direct access to the programmers. A buffer layer is needed. Programmers make for poor customer service reps, anyway. We know the software sucks, due to insane and lame requirements from the PHB, and aren't afraid to reveal truths that the sales guys would never dare reveal.
They said cell phone support by the programmers would be temporary until another tech is hired. It's been 3 years now and no tech. I hate my job.
When you've roofed houses in Houston, Texas for fourteen hours a day in August (105 in the shade and 99% humidity) to make $2.00 an hour, ANY job with a ceiling sounds pretty damn appealing, much less a job with air conditioning or one that allows you to sit down.
Nonperiodic Central Trajectory
no offense, but if the shit hits the fan on this economy, the average person will jump at the chance to hold an open zip loc below some pooches ass for $14 an hour.
didnja ever read the grapes of wrath?
since most readers are american, and living in the "american century", you really have no idea what it's like to watch people you love get turned into REAL WHORES or watch members of your family starve, die of diseases or get shot and robbed for what little they have.
don't get me wrong, i certainly don't hope these things come to pass (again), but historically it's a fairly strong possibility.
Treatment, not tyranny. End the drug war and free our American POWs.
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You *have* to wonder what sort of resume you need to present in order to get a job as a porn scanner...
"Have personally sampled over 10,000 porn websites in my 'research'"
"I can instantly tell by a domain name if it will have porn on it or not."
"I don't puke when I see that goatse.cx link that keeps turning up on Slashdot..."
...running a cool technology-focused website with an interactive discussion system that is abused by hundreds of adolescent trolls that insult you, fill up interesting threads with garbage, exploit every possible hole in your system, put your e-mail address on spamlists, make bogus submissions, continually accuse you of conspiring with your employer and lots more?
But seriously, searching for porn is listed as one of the worst. I've been doing it for free for years. I had no idea I could be getting paid for it.
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
They forgot the all horrible Slashdot Moderator job ^_^.